So I am weak and have backed the new Bloodborne boardgame on kickstarter.

I am looking at it, but I cannot shake that uneasy feeling that I often have with CMON dungeon crawler games (especially after my experience with Massive Darkness, which I extensively and expensively backed): magnificent miniatures accompanied by a rule set that seems to offer little variance or depth.

I would second Viticulture. I have Lords of Hellas but haven't played it yet, so no opinion on whether I'd recommend it. Cyclades is pretty cool, if you're looking for another dudes-on-a-map game a la Scythe/Root, and Kemet might be even better suited.

We've played Gods War again and Crusader Kings, which I just recently received from Kickstarter.

Gods War is an excellent heavy strategy game. Two games now and it's just really fun. The basics are quite simple, but the depth of the game seems immense. It also helps that every faction seems to play entirely different, and that there's 9 of them.

Crusader Kings is a very different game. It's not as strategy heavy, and have many more random elements. It's a game where narrative plays a big part, where having fun at your king using his gardening trait to survive a crusade is at its essence. There's a lot of diplomacy involved, and lots of fun negotiations. Still, random events can really hamper your game, so you have to approach Crusader Kings with the knowledge that it can all go tits up through no fault of your own.

Take good care to keep relations civil
It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil

We've played Gods War again and Crusader Kings, which I just recently received from Kickstarter.

Gods War is an excellent heavy strategy game. Two games now and it's just really fun. The basics are quite simple, but the depth of the game seems immense. It also helps that every faction seems to play entirely different, and that there's 9 of them.

Crusader Kings is a very different game. It's not as strategy heavy, and have many more random elements. It's a game where narrative plays a big part, where having fun at your king using his gardening trait to survive a crusade is at its essence. There's a lot of diplomacy involved, and lots of fun negotiations. Still, random events can really hamper your game, so you have to approach Crusader Kings with the knowledge that it can all go tits up through no fault of your own.

Iíll be giving crusader kings a go this weekend with a quick draft version variant of firefly..going to a local board game convention this weekend!

We've played Gods War again and Crusader Kings, which I just recently received from Kickstarter.

Gods War is an excellent heavy strategy game. Two games now and it's just really fun. The basics are quite simple, but the depth of the game seems immense. It also helps that every faction seems to play entirely different, and that there's 9 of them.

Crusader Kings is a very different game. It's not as strategy heavy, and have many more random elements. It's a game where narrative plays a big part, where having fun at your king using his gardening trait to survive a crusade is at its essence. There's a lot of diplomacy involved, and lots of fun negotiations. Still, random events can really hamper your game, so you have to approach Crusader Kings with the knowledge that it can all go tits up through no fault of your own.

I'll be giving crusader kings a go this weekend with a quick draft version variant of firefly..going to a local board game convention this weekend!

A crucial rule to remember, is that when you pick an action - for most actions - you can do any number of them. If you want to build a castle, you can build as many castles as you want (though paying for each). If you want to invade you can invade as many times as you want (though only once for each army), if you chose to fabricate a casus beli you do that as many times as you'd like too (though when it comes to intrigue actions it costs 1 gold pr extra after the first one. So if you're playing as France and fabricating Casus beli against England, Spain and Germany, it'll costs you 2 gold.)

It's a serious pain being in the last round and ready to attack, but suddenly come to the realization that you don't have enough actions to both fabricate a casus beli, mobilize and attack.

Take good care to keep relations civil
It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil